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THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
(wet or dry) we visited the locality, on 
the outlook for more. Fortune didn’t 
condescend to reward me until two nights 
ago, when S()yiug one sitting in a new 
place I examined it thoroughly, shouted 
for Douglas to come, and I think we 
took about one hundred between us, and 
nearly as many last night. — John Scott, 
Vi,Torringlon Villas, Lee, S.E. ; Aug.'Al. 
Capture of Mycelophagus tnultipunc- 
tatus. — Whilst in search of a little Ceutho- 
rhynchus the other evening I happened 
to lay bold of a boletus containing a 
number of the above rarity, as well as a 
lot of the larvae, — active little fellows 
who every one chose a different path 
across the paper on which the boletus 
was laid during examination, so that 
their capture again was rendered some- 
what difficult. 
Aromia moschata swarmed on the 
leaves of the alder, giving forth a delicious 
perfume. Why they are called moschata 
puzzles me, as the odour is decidedly 
more like attar of roses. What is the 
use of this perfume? Truly, we may 
say with Shakespeare, 
“ Aromia, Aromia, 
Wherefore art thou Aromia?" 
— Ibid. 
Coleoptera. — The late continued wet 
season appears to have had a very de- 
pressing effect upon beetles ; some are 
not to be found in anything like their 
usual numbers, and others have been kept 
back beyond their accustomed period ; 
vvhil>t many early species, preventetl from 
breeding by the weather, have lingered 
on to a much later mouth than I have 
noticed before; for instance I took Apo- 
dcrus, Attclabus, Zetigophora and Trachys 
on the 5th of August, and the smaller 
Agrilus and Cryptocephali were not un- 
common on the 12th of the same mouth, 
on which day I also found the large 
Agrilus “stumped out” by the rain, — the 
old felled oaks being under water in the 
hollows at Darenth, so that the hark- 
iiisccts were drowned before they could 
emerge. Next year will not be a lively 
one for collecting there, I should ima- 
gine. One would think that at least 
water-beetle collecting was now at its 
prime, but even that resource is denied 
us, for the pools are so swollen with 
recent rain water that the increase of 
beetles is by no means equal to that of 
the fluid, consequently it is like “ looking 
for a needle in a bottle of hay.” 
Since my last I have found the fol- 
lowing species at Darenth: — 
Rhynchites megacephalus, 
Agrilus laticornis, 
Choleva fumata, 
Triphyllus puuctatus, 
Serica brunnea, 
Cycramus fungicola, 
Tychius Schneideri, 
Cryptocephalus pusillus, 
Brachypterus gravid us, 
Notiophilus aquaticus, 
Oliorhynchus pabulinus, 
Bolitobius atricapilla, 
... exoletus, 
Homalota trinotala, 
Tclepborus bicolor, 
... nigricans, 
... pellucidus, 
... luscicornis, 
Ei)ura;a pusilla, 
... melina, 
... dcleta, 
... obsoleta, 
Meligethes viridescens, 
... picipes, 
Gcuthorhynchus constrictus, 
... assimilis, 
... erysimi, 
... sulcicollis, 
... Troglodytes, 
... marginatus. 
Also Ceuthorhynchus trhnacnlatus off 
thistle-blossom in llichmond Bark, and 
Gymnetron noctis and linaritc out of the 
flowers of toad-flax near llochampton. 
At Claremont the fir-trees arc riddled 
with Dendroctonus, now just coming out. 
The loluntccrs and clouds have made a 
